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Process in which people, ideas and goods spread throughout the world, spurring more interaction and integration between the world's cultures, governments and economies.

Globalization's dimensions

• economic

• political

• technological

• cultural

• religious, ecological

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Attributes, qualities or characteristics of Globalization: involves both the creation of new social networks and the multiplication of existing connections that cut across traditional, political, economic, cultural, and geographical boundaries

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Globalization is reflected in the non-expansion and the stretching of social relations, activities, and connections

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Globalization involves the intestify and acceleration of social exchanges and activities.

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Globalization processes do not occur merely or an objective, thing level but they also involve the subjective plane of human consciousness without erasing local and national attachments, the compression of the world into a single place has increasingly made global the frame or reference for human thought and action.

It refers to the increasing interdependence of world economies as a result of the growing scale of cross-border trade of commodities and services, flow of international capital, and wide and rapid spread of technologies.

10 000 BCE - 3500 BCE ; In this period due to absence of advanced forms of technology, globalization was severely limited

3500 BCE - 1500CE ; The invention of writing and the wheel were great social and technological boosts that moved globalization to a new level. The invention of wheel in addition to roads made the transportation of people and goods more efficient on the other hand writing facilitated the spread of ideas and inventions

1500-1750 ; Period between the enlightenment and the renaissance. In this period, European enlightenment project tried to achieve a universal form of morality and law. This with the emergence of European metropolitan centers and unlimited material accumulation which led to the capitalist world system helped to strengthen globalization.